City to file raps vs unauthorized agent

THE Bacolod City Government is now planning to file a usurpation of authority or coercion case on Monday against the suspect Fernando Casiano Java who failed to prove that he was an authorized agent of serving court order to the City Mayor’s Office last Thursday.

City Legal Officer lawye Joselito Bayatan said Friday the suspect committed an offense within the reign of the prison correctional or less grave felony, “so, we have within 12 hours to file the complaint.”

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He said the City Government has filed a usurpation of authority or coercion case. “Java performed a governmental function without an authority to do it, and he acted like he’s an official of the court to serve the “order” to the city.”
Java was detained at the Police Precinct 4 last Thursday when he failed to prove that he was an authorized agent of the court to serve such court order to the City Government.

The order allegedly issued by the Regional Trial Court in Makati City restrained the Bacolod City Government for 20 days from withdrawing or using the partially released proceeds of the P250 million loan granted by the Philippine Veterans Bank-Makati amounting to P132, 241,017.09.

The order was based on a complaint filed by Yvette Tormon of Bacolod, a former technical assistant of Bacolod Representative Monico Puentevella and reportedly now an employee of the Philippine Sports Commission.

Bayatan said the alleged “order” did not bear the seal of the court and was only a Xerox copy.

Bayatan in the meantime refused to comment the said “order” copies of the document that was distributed to media entities in a white envelope with an unidentified source, “since, it’s a photocopy we can’t comment on it, as it may be fake.”

Bayatan was also wondering why Tormon who is already living in Makati for two years, as a Philippine Sports Commission employee would “suddenly, become a resident, tax payer, and concerned citizen of Bacolod, and she also filed the case in Makati.”

“Since the start, the filing of cases opposing the release of the P250 million loan of the city government, had malice and was irregular. There’s really a color of politics in these cases,” Bayatan stressed.

He added that the group had attempted twice to secure a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) from the Department of Agrarian Reform Adjudication Board and RTC, “however, these were denied. It means that all of these TRO’s precedes this third case.